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What is QuNeo?

QuNeo
is a different species of pad controller for electronic musicians, DJs, VJs and DIY hackers. While it covers all of the
functionality of other pad controllers, QuNeo adds the power of touch
recognition in other dimensions.

QuNeo Features

Tactile Pads, Sliders, Rotary Sensors and Switches

Each of the 27 pads, sliders and rotary
sensors are pressure, velocity, and location sensitive. Even the 17 switches
respond to how hard you press.

16 square
pads provide 127 levels of Velocity response. And X-Y location. And continuous
pressure. For each pad. Times sixteen.

Rotary Sensors

2
rotary sensors allow you to scrub, trigger, stretch, pinch and play phrases
and sound files, manipulate continuous controllers and more . Each rotary sensor measures angle, pressure and distance from the
center.

Multi-touch Sliders

9
touch sensitive sliders can be mapped to fader and effects controls. LEDs within
each slider act as VU meters or remind you where you were. Multi-touch lets
you select a length between two fingers to set stereo locations or filter
resonances. Tapping a slider can mute or toggle any track or function.

Switches

The
switches are located in smart groupings to select samples, fader banks,
and transport controls. Each of the switches can scan up and
down through files at speeds variable with your touch. Great for quickly locating that
perfect fill or telling your looper you really meant it.

The Size of an iPad.

QuNeo is the size of an iPad and can fit in iPad accessories such as
mic clips, stands and more.

Class Compliant and Open Source Development Kit

QuNeo works with USB, MIDI or OSC and will communicate with your favorite music software environments right out of the box. More advanced users and programmers can use the development kit and API to create their own code to respond to QuNeo's sensor data. Hack away to control your world in ways never before possible!

We are asking for your support on KickStarter to put QuNeo into production.

QuNeo is fully designed and prototyped and will perfectly compliment SoftStep and 12 Step, our innovative foot controllers currently on the market. We are reaching out to you on Kickstarter to raise the funds for tooling and production to make QuNeo available ASAP. As a thank you for your support, we will happily send you one of our wonderful rewards, including this limited edition sticker.

We are already creating a buzz amongst musicians, DJs, visual artists and engineers who have seen the prototypes, check out what they had to say...

Matt Black (Coldcut / Ninja Tune): "Touch control with pressure sensitivity = puts iPad AND conventional controllers to sleep. Just what I've been waiting for in a next gen controller for music/DJing/VJing. Plus it looks gorgeous. At last an escape packet from the strait jacket of the past. ROCK ON YOU STARS, can't wait to get this. Coldcut are in!"

Thavius Beck:"Uh, hell yes I'm down. I can imagine all kinds of ways to play with
this...I'm on board."

Vernon Reid:"This
is VERY exciting to me! I'm happy to be part of the launch of what
looks to be an outstanding new product....I already want one!"

Strangeloop:"This looks EXACTLY like what I'm looking
for, I've been abandoning Midi controllers left and right, would Love to
find something more expressive. Preferably before I go on tour
with Erykah Badu
:)"

Dose One: "I have always struggled to find technology that truly
allows me to PLAY electronics... it is utterly exciting that Keith
McMillen and company are making controllers that allow musicians to
indeed PLAY their computer made music with the attention to detail that
an obsessive musician can revel in."

Tim Blake-Hawkwind:"You may well have produced the so badly needed "buttons" for the Virtual Synth set up at last!"

Laura Escude, Violinist/Composer/Music Technologist for Kanye West, Cirque du Soleil: “I
am so beyond freaking excited to get my hands on QuNeo. A few years
back when I worked at M-Audio I lusted after the elusive Surface One
which unfortunately never materialized to the masses. QuNeo looks to
take this concept to the stratosphere. As a Soft Step and 12 Step user, I
know that Keith McMillen’s new product will be similarly portable,
aesthetically pleasing and revolutionary.”

Please share our KickStarter campaign with your friends so that we can bring QuNeo to world, and thank you for your support!

About Keith McMillen Instruments: Keith
McMillen has been a pioneer in electronic and computer music for over 30 years.
His instruments and inventions have been used by artists like Laurie Anderson,
Bob Weir and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Boyd Tinsley of Dave Matthews Band, Jean Luc Ponty, John Fogerty and Kronos Quartet. Keith invented the first programmable audio mixer, the Zeta violin (the gold standard for electric stringed instruments), K-Bow, the worlds first bluetooth sensor bow, SoftStep, 12 Step, StringPort and Batt-O-Meter.

Learn more about KMI by reading this company profile written by the Bay Area News Group.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $200 or more
About $200

You will receive a first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controller before they hit the stores, a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and a QuNeo Sticker and our personal thank you in print! Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $50.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $240 or more
About $240

You will receive a first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controller before they hit the stores, a MIDI Expander (necessary to connect QuNeo to external hardware via 5-pin MIDI DIN connectors) a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and a QuNeo Sticker and our personal thank you in print! Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $50.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $375 or more
About $375

You will receive two first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controllers before they hit the stores, a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and a QuNeo Sticker and our personal thank you in print! Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $75.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $420 or more
About $420

You will receive a first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controller before they hit the stores and a SoftStep, USB/MIDI Foot Controller. Add an additional $40 for a MIDI Expander (necessary to connect QuNeo to external hardware via 5-pin MIDI DIN connectors) a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and a QuNeo Sticker and our personal thank you in print! Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $75.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $420 or more
About $420

You will receive a first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controller before they hit the stores and a 12 Step, Chromatic Keyboard Foot Controller. Add an additional $40 for a MIDI Expander (necessary to connect QuNeo to external hardware via 5-pin MIDI DIN connectors) a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and a QuNeo Sticker and our personal thank you in print! Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $75.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $700 or more
About $700

You will receive a KMI Controller Bundle with a first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controller before they hit the stores, SoftStep and 12 Step, a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and a QuNeo Sticker and our personal thank you in print! Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $100.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge US$ 1,000 or more
About $1,000

You will receive our KMI Controller Bundle with a first edition QuNeo multi-touch pad controller before they hit the stores, SoftStep and 12 Step, and a Limited Edition QuNeo T-Shirt and QuNeo sticker and our personal thank you in print! In addition, you will be our guest at NAMM 2012, on Sunday, January 22, 2012 in Anaheim, CA, where you can hang out with the KMI gang and explore the biggest musical equipment trade show in the US! Supporter must be 18 years or older, and is responsible for their own travel costs and expenses, however, we'll treat you to a fabulous lunch on Sunday at the show with QuNeo inventor and KMI Founder, Keith McMillen. Free Shipping USA and Canada, International add $100.